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VICTORIA — The British Columbia government has extended its provincial state of emergency that gives it extraordinary powers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ENDERBY, B.C. — The RCMP say a homicide investigation into the death of a 46-year-old man from Enderby, B.C., has been taken over by the southeast district major crime unit. Police say they were notified by hospital officials shortly before 5 p.m.

VICTORIA — Staff and students at middle and secondary schools in British Columbia will be required to wear masks on buses and in common areas when classes resume.

KELOWNA, B.C. — A Calgary woman has died after slipping into a river and being swept away in B.C.'s Kootenay National Park. The RCMP say in a statement they were called Sunday and told a water rescue was underway in Marble Canyon.

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — The health authority in northern British Columbia has issued an alert after more than a dozen people tested positive for COVID-19. The alert says the outbreak is linked to a religious gathering held between July 30 and Aug.

VANCOUVER — Environment Canada is forcasting another day of sizzling heat through much of British Columbia's southern Interior, Okanagan and Fraser Canyon. The weather office says 13 temperature records were broken or tied across southern B.C.

VANCOUVER — Staff at two more long-term care homes in Metro Vancouver have tested positive for COVID-19.